8-22-11

8:05am

The first day of school for Columbus

is Wednesday.  Going to spend the next

two days doing laundry.

If I find time I might start matching up

some outfits for the kids ahead of time

and putting them on one hanger so they

can just grab it and get dressed.

This will include the socks and undies as well.

This is such a time saver for those

rushed mornings!

The junior high will not allow the students

to wear any shirts that are solid red or blue!

They did not give a reason why in their

newsletter but my guess is that it is

probably gang colors.  Well ain't that nice

to worry about in schools now, the color

your child wears on his/her clothing!

Need to find book bags and

stock them with basic school supplies from

my stockpile that I got last year.

Things like spiral notebook paper,

pencils, pens, glue sticks and markers

or colored pencils.  I think I read in another

school letter that they don't want the

kids to have markers and use colored pencils

instead. But why not?

I love when they come home with

homemade tattoos from markers

all over their face, hands, arms and legs

and leave the parents to figure out

how to remove them!

Why are they just now figuring out

that markers are a bad idea?

And next thing I need to worry about is food.

I'm going to have to pack the kids lunches

til I hear if we qualified for reduced lunches.

I'm sure we do since we've been getting

it ever since they were in kindergarten.

It's a pain though because they hem haw

around about telling you, sometimes 

they don't even let you know and you have to 

call or go to the school to find out.

In the meanwhile your packing lunches for

a couple months only to have them

say, oh you qualified 6 weeks ago.

Well that would have been nice to know!!

This makes my grocery budget go up

during that time!  

I also need to figure out breakfasts for the kids

each morning.  I try to feed them at home

even though everyone gets free breakfasts at school.

Who's to say that they are eating at school

or just horsing around with friends instead.

If I feed them at home I know they

are starting off the day with something

in their belly.

 8:20am

Lol, I got a call on my cell phone

and the lady says, I'm calling about

the craigslist ad you had for childcare.

Sorry wrong number!!!

I think I've done enough babysitting

over the Summer for everyone elses

child that wanted to come hang out

here for hours on end!!

I'm one of those parents looking

forward to kids going back to school

just to get a break, lol.

I've had a couple people around here 

ask me if I would babysit their

children before and after school.

I turn them down. 

Yeah I'm a stay at home mom or

housewife, yes I am home most of the day,

yes I am conveniently in the same

neighborhood as them,

BUT that does not make me available

for babysitting, geesh!

 This is my time to clean house,

cut coupons, make a grocery list,

search for deals on the internet for

coupon match ups,

go grocery shopping, make daily meals,

 make freezer meals, do laundry, clean dishes,
take a nap, then 

worry about getting my kids on and off 

a bus and seeing to it they get their homework

done. And they do get quite a bit of

homework that I wonder what the

teachers are doing in school that

the average working parent has this

on their shoulders now.  I don't

remember having that much homework!

After school I see so many kids

running the neighborhood playing outside

from the time they get off the bus til dark.

When do they do homework?

They don't.  Some parents don't care.

I learn that these kids are failing

and are doing Summer school.

I hear these kids also talk about

going home and playing games systems

or fiddling with cell phones.

For starters my kids are not allowed

to have cell phones til they are old

enough to get a job to cover that cost!

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Blogger has totally screwed up my blog
for today.  Things disappeared that I posted.
I am so tired of this happening!
You work hard at a blog and
this is what you get.  
I think I'm done for today
unless I feel like trying later on
tonight once we get home from
the Clipper's game.
Right now I just don't feel like posting
stuff that disappears for no reason.